Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:05 am Post subject: rain
Happy 4th everybody.
I have no background in Gettysburg beyond some broad, but not deep, reading. There is the disclaimer. One of the fascinating parts of it to me is the retreat and pursuit. I have always apprreciated the role of weather in the events in world history. My musing this morning is; if the rain was a factor in delaying pursuit would it not have been, equally, a factor in delaying the retreat? OK, then is this part of the answer? For the USA, pursuit was optional; for the CSA retreat was a matter of survival. Hence, the CSA was much more highly motivated when dealing with the same conditions. Part of this posting is motivated by the 4 inch rain that fell here last night, delaying or cancelling some of the festivities scheduled for today. Have a nice fifth, too.
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Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject:
Hughes,
If you dont have One Continous Fight by our esteemed memembers here Wittenberg , Pettruzzi and Nugent, GET IT! It covers that in spades!
JIM _________________ "The Flag, THE FLAG, Oh THE FLAG! G.K. Warrens last words on his death bed, August 8,1882
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. W.T. Sherman
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